| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 444 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-444). |
| Contents |
Part one. History and society -- Preconditions for the rise of National Socialism / Karl-Dietrich Bracher -- Introduction to the history of the German war economy / Dietrich Eichholtz -- The political legacy of the German Resistance / Hans Rothfels -- The problem of militarism in Germany / Gerhard Ritter -- From anitauthoritarian movement to Socialist opposition / Bernd Rabehl -- The Berlin Wall illness / Dietrfried Muller-Hegemann -- Part two. Philosophy, science, and religion -- Between metaphysics and social criticism : comments on German philosophy after 1945 / Ivo Frenzel -- Theology : transcendence and secularity / Hans W. Frei -- The future of science / Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Wetzsacker -- Learning to see and learning to think / Robert Havemann -- Marx today - an address / Max Horkheimer -- From Knowledge and human interest / Jurgen Habermas -- Aesthetics and hermeneutics / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Part three. Literature -- Fragments / Gottfried Benn -- Death fugue / Paul Celan -- The sea battle / Gunther Grass -- Breathing / Wilhelm Lehmann -- Under the roots of the thistle / Peter Huchel -- Laws / Gunter Kunert -- Anonymous citizen from GDR -- Germany, 1952 / Bertholt Brecht -- Precision practice / Yaak Karsunke -- Almost autobiographical life story of a West German Leftist / Franz Josef Degenhardt -- Stocktaking ballad in the thirtieth year / Wolf Biermann -- Middle class blues / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- Reasons / Erich Fried -- Words are shadows / Eugen Gomringer -- Calypso / Ernst Jandl -- Es / Franz Mon -- Am I German? / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- You are now entering Germany / Heinrich Boll -- Stories from a primer / Wolfgang Borchert -- The two sons / Bertolt Brecht -- The first two sentences for a book about Germany / Johannes Bobrowski -- An experiment in love / Alexander Kluge -- Calculation about what everyone knew / Helmut Heissenbuttel -- Three encounters / Anna Seghers -- My home is Austria / Hans Carl Artmann -- The funeral / Wolfdietrich Schnurre -- Where I live / Ilse Aichinger -- Eight very short stories / Heimito Von Doderer -- Aphorisms / Elias Canetti -- The Jew from Andorra / Max Frisch -- In the poor house / Thomas Bernhard -- World's end / Christoph Meckel -- The tale of the giant snake Louella / Peter Hacks -- Doctor of entertainment / Siegfried Lenz -- After Siegfried's death / Martin Walser -- The daughter / Peter Bichsel -- Entrance / Reinhard Lettau -- What to do with Ulbricht? / Werner W. Franke -- On a posture of protest / Uwe Johnson -- Calling for help / Peter Handke -- On the unity of German literature / Hans Mayer -- Austria ; Switzerland / Peter Demetz -- Physiognomy of a group / Joachim Kaiser -- From "On the problem of realism" / Ernst Fischer -- New difficulties in writing the truth / Reinhard Baumgart -- The commonplace and the only correct word / Dieter Wellershoff -- Part four. Music -- German musical life : patterns of conservatism and experiment / Hans H. Stuckenschmidt -- Electronic and instrumental music [1958] / Karlheinz Stockhausen -- New music, interpretation, audience / Theodor W. Adorno -- Visible music / Dieter Schnebel -- Part five. Architecture, fine arts, and film -- New German architecture / Hubert Hoffmann -- The situation in German painting since 1945 / Albert Schulze-Vellinghausen -- German sculpture in the twentieth century / Eduard Trier -- Young German film / Staff of Der Spiegel. |
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Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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German literature -- 20th century.
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Arts -- Germany.
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Austria -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Switzerland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
McClelland, Charles E., editor.
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Scher, Steven P. (Steven Paul), editor.
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| ISBN |
9780525473657 (pbk.) |
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0525473653 (pbk.) |
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